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The Pottery Barn store in Beverly Hills, California

Pottery Barn is an American-based home furnishing store chain with retail stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Since September 1986, when it was purchased from GAP, Inc, Pottery Barn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Pottery Barn also operates several specialty stores under the titles Pottery Barn Kids and PBteen. Pottery Barn has two retail catalogues, the traditional Pottery Barn catalogue and Pottery Barn Bed + Bath to focus only on its bed and bath lines.

The Pottery Barn was co-founded in 1950 by Paul Secon, with his brother, Morris. The company sells a variety of furniture, including its flagship "Manhattan Collection" line—manufactured by Lane in Toledo, Ohio.

Pottery Barn Kids[link]

Pottery Barn Kids focuses on upscale children's furniture as well as bedding, towels, and baby clothing. The first Pottery Barn Kids store was opened in South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California.

PBteen[link]

PBteen is the first home retailer to focus on teenagers in the 13-19 age range. It was launched in 2003. The first PB Teen store opened in Georgia in 2009, as well as in New York City and Chicago. The store now has a sub brand PB Dorm aimed at young people starting college life.

See also[link]

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• Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
• Pottery Barn rule, non-existent store policy spun by American politicians

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pottery Barn's official site
• Pottery Barn Kids website
• PBteen website

India Amanda Caroline Hicks (born 5 September 1967 in London, England) is a former fashion model, 678th^[1] in line to the line of succession to the British Throne.

Early life[link]

The third child of Lady Pamela Mountbatten and David Nightingale Hicks, a celebrated interior designer of the 1960s and 1970s. Through her maternal grandfather, The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, she is a second cousin to The Prince of Wales, and also in line to succeed to the British throne.

Raised in London and Oxfordshire, she was educated at Gordonstoun until she was expelled for entertaining boys in her room,^[2] and spent holidays at the family estate in Ireland and at her father's self-designed and built Bahamian-holiday home.^[3] In 1981, she served as bridesmaid to Lady Diana Spencer at her wedding to the Prince.^[4]

Career[link]

Aged 17, she drove from England to Italy without having passed her driving test, to meet designer Emilio Pucci. On arrival, he made her model all of his catsuits.^[5] Hicks later moved to New York, and developed a career as a model in the 1980s and 1990s, working for Ralph Lauren and J. Crew,^[3] and featuring in Tatler magazine.

Hicks presently co-manages a hotel development in the Caribbean with her partner. The creator of an all-natural body-and-home-fragrance line with Crabtree & Evelyn, she is also a published author.^[6]

In 2007, Hicks hosted the second season of the Bravo interior design competition TV series Top Design.

In 2011, she commentated on the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, for both ITV and ABC; and is presently the face of Viyella.^[7]

Personal life[link]

Hicks has four children with her boyfriend, interior designer turned hotelier David Flint Wood:

• Felix Austen Flint Wood (b. May 23, 1997 Miami, Florida)
• Amory John Flint Wood (b. June 25, 1999 Miami, Florida)
• Conrad Lorenzo Flint Wood (b. April 25, 2003 Miami, Florida)
• Domino Carmen Flint Wood (b.December 17, 2007 Miami, Florida)

All of her children are excluded from the line of succession to the British throne because all four were born out of wedlock. The family lives in the Bahamas in a plantation-style house Hibiscus Hill, which was featured in an article in the overseas property magazine A Place in the Sun in June 2008.^[8]

Ancestry[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• India Hicks at the Fashion Model Directory
• India Hicks interviewed at the Bal Harbour Shops Magazine launch party, May 2010
• Theodora & Callum interview with India Hicks
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